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REQUESTING COMPUTING TIME AT NASA
If you are a NASA-sponsored scientist or engineer, computing time is available to you at the High-End Computing (HEC) Program's NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Facility and NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS).
LATEST NEWS
- 04.25.25 - The Stratospheric Sudden Warming of March 2025 Abruptly Ended the NH Stratospheric Polar Vortex
- A cold stratospheric polar region characterized most of the NH winter of 2024-2025, with a major final warming in early March. The NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office’s GEOS-FP and GEOS-S2S products were able to forecast and characterize the evolution of this SSW event. GEOS-FP and GEOS-S2S run at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS).
- 03.19.25 - Scientists Simulate the Electrical Dynamics of Thundersnow at NCCS
- In a first-of-a-kind study, NASA, university, and industry scientists simulated the electrical dynamics of thundersnow — lightning within snowfall — at the NCCS.
- 03.14.25 - New Grace Hopper Nodes Double the Power of NASA's Cabeus Supercomputer
- As part of the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division’s goal to provide NASA with the computing power needed to support the agency’s missions and programs, 350 NVIDIA Grace Hopper nodes were added to the Cabeus supercomputer, providing more than 13 petaflops of computing power and more than doubling Cabeus’ total peak capability.
- 03.14.25 - GEOS-FP Excels at Predicting Presidents' Week Mid-Atlantic Snowfall
- A large snowstorm struck the Mid-Atlantic just after Presidents' Day. While many NWP models had to shift their snowfall locations in the days leading up the event, GEOS-FP had the snowstorm correctly forecasted from the beginning. GEOS-FP runs daily at the NCCS.
- 03.03.05 - Going With the Flow: Visualizing Ocean Currents with ECCO
- NASA scientists and collaborators built the ECCO model to be the most realistic, detailed, and continuous depiction of the ocean ever developed. ECCO runs at the NAS Facility. Read the story, watch the video, and look at the many new visualizations..
- 02.27.25 - NASA Supercomputer Finds Billions of Comets Mimicking the Milky Way’s Shape
- Spirals are a repeating theme in astronomy, with arguably the most famous example of a swirling armed structure being our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Now, using NASA's powerful Pleiades supercomputer, scientists have discovered yet another spiral structure on the edge of our solar system.
HEC FACILITIES
NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Facility
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
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